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6 comments:
Mostly animals. Perhaps because man was so dependent on the animals for food, etc, and had to view some creatures as potentially dangerous, he saw them as god-like. What better way to revere the gods than by drawing altars honoring these animals.
-IAN
Good Ian. Now all my other #1's need to expand on this answer.
The Paleolithic scribbles on the walls of the cave men times, was to express the appreciation and respect they have for the tools that were present to aid life. Animals helped clothe, fertilized crops, and supply miscellaneously. Of course people are going to celebrate what they have; though I have seen paintings of violence, like a trial concluding with death. So, before the Printing Press was invented, stone walls were like a book for pictures of whatever, not just animals, but mostly.
What I saw from photographs of Paleolithic Cave Walls was a bunch of pantings of animals, and people that appeared to be hunting/ slaughtering the innocent by standers. The prehistoric people also had great respect for the animals they killed, ate, made shoes, clothes, jewlry, maps, paintings, and many many other unknown items. In some of the prehistoric "tribes" the occupants of the house/ hole in a rock would display a animal that they honor on their "front door step."
As fellow number ones answerers wrote they were mostly animals. I see that the paintings were used to show the climate changes. most of the pictues used animals for the symbolism of fear. I beleive that they used animals simply becuase it was easy 2 draw dont get me wrong they had a deep meaning behind all there cave paintings, but most it was like our literalture of today since they didnt have words they drew pictures
In art, the Paleolithic era is marked by cave paintings and drawings of animals. It is thought that the animals were either those needed for food and that the paintings were some type of ritual related to the hunt, or that the animals were sacred and were given god-like qualities. It has also been suggested that the paintings represent primitive calendars or almanacs, "coming of age" ceremonies, records of tribal migrations, and mystic paintings during a shamanistic trance. While the purpose of paleolithic works of art is far from being certain, the art can be categorized as being "invitational," that is, created and viewed on purpose by selected or invited individuals for specific purposes; "public," that is, created to be viewed by anyone in the area or passing by the area, such as a public monument, territorial marker, or gravestone; and "personal," that is, small private objects carried by individuals as ritual items or charms.
http://www.accd.edu/sac/vat/arthistory/arts1303/PALNEO.htm
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